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FTX owned an $11.5 million stake in a tiny rural bank in Washington state with just 3 employees, bankruptcy hearing shows
Business Insider via MSN ^ | November 24, 2022 | By Pete Syme

Posted on 11/24/2022 6:21:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: DoodleBob

Interesting, thanks for the details and ping.


21 posted on 11/24/2022 6:53:47 AM PST by EEGator
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To: DoodleBob

Great stuff, and thanks for posting the link. This story just gets better by the minute.


22 posted on 11/24/2022 6:55:27 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: DoodleBob

Don’t the regulators have many automated alarms looking for such anomalous data and transactions? It must have been screaming.


23 posted on 11/24/2022 7:00:16 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: PGR88

Harvard lawyers know how to launder money.


24 posted on 11/24/2022 7:03:33 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Martha Vineyard’s Jamaican Gardener should have pulled his heist there.


25 posted on 11/24/2022 7:06:14 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Hat-Trick

With all this coming out and SBF and his troll of a gf are still walking around Free as a bird


26 posted on 11/24/2022 7:08:12 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: DoodleBob

“That’s said, the regulators HAD to see what was happening, AND allowed it. “

Because today the law is not what is written and binding but whatever the voice from the ether says it is today and is endlessly fluid.

Either we the people crack the whip or we get on our knees. It’s that simple.


27 posted on 11/24/2022 7:11:54 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Blue Highway

...until he is not walking around any more.


28 posted on 11/24/2022 7:12:27 AM PST by mware
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Liz; bitt

The town of Farmington has just 146 residents, and is so small that Google Street View doesn’t cover the whole town.

For a decade, Farmington’s bank held around $10 million in deposits. In the third quarter this year, deposits jumped to $84 million – 85% of which came from just four accounts, according to FDIC data cited by the Times.

Online, the bank now appears as “Moonstone Bank,” a name which was trademarked a few days before FTX’s investment. Moonstone doesn’t mention cryptocurrency, but does say it wants to “support the evolution of next generation finance.”

Questions are being asked over how FTX got federal approval to buy its stake in Farmington. Banking veterans told the New York Times that it was hard to believe regulators would have knowingly allowed the crypto firm to do so.

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smells like mad maxine was in on it?


29 posted on 11/24/2022 7:17:30 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....Tomorrow, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff L)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

nothing to see here. move along/s


30 posted on 11/24/2022 7:20:22 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....Tomorrow, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff L)
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To: DoodleBob; Liz; bitt

Here’s where it gets interesting. The bank, which had posted net income routinely with small quarterly losses over the years, started cranking out quarterly losses of $22k, $44k, then losses shot up to $558k, $576k, $1,085k, and finally a whopping $2.6MM loss in the most recent quarter. Meanwhile, there are equity injections commingled with the losses.

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pretty hefty losses.

wonder who was borrowing money that created the losses?

wonder if the losses were in the bank’s securities trading account??


31 posted on 11/24/2022 7:25:58 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....Tomorrow, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff L)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Looks like the drive thru has been obstructed with firewood. Somebody tell Ebb to move that.


32 posted on 11/24/2022 7:28:37 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Don’t the regulators have many automated alarms looking for such anomalous data and transactions? It must have been screaming.

The Feds will probe any regular Joe withdrawing more than $600 in cash. They certainly knew these transactions were occurring but their globalist handlers directed them to look the other way.

33 posted on 11/24/2022 7:31:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wonder how many other small banks are filtering places for dark money?.


34 posted on 11/24/2022 7:38:17 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Kaiser8408a

“This is outrageous, but Democrats won’t hold him accountable. He part of the elitist cabal in the US.”

He’s not only walking around free, but giving speeches at economic forums attended by various bigshots. They are actually working to try and get this guy off the hook.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/howls-outrage-after-new-york-times-confirms-sbf-speak-alongside-zelenskyy-yellen-dealbook


35 posted on 11/24/2022 7:48:28 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“3 staff”

Who are rich, unless they were paid in FTX.


36 posted on 11/24/2022 7:57:20 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: dynachrome

Or potentially broke Federal criminals to be.

This is beyond “lite shady”.


37 posted on 11/24/2022 8:03:48 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MONEY LAUNDRY??


38 posted on 11/24/2022 8:05:52 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: PGR88

Democrat vote fraud factories aren’t going to fund themselves...


39 posted on 11/24/2022 8:05:52 AM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: PGR88

NAME the THREE EMPLOYEES!!


40 posted on 11/24/2022 8:07:25 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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